It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.